226  ❦ ELUCIDATIONS OF HÖLDERLIN'S POETRY

The evening meal is the evening of time, when time turns itself around.
Snow is the winter:


Woe is me! where shall I find, when
It is winter, the flowers, and where
The sunshine,
And shadows of the earth?

("Half of Life")


But the bell—its sound—is the poet's song. He calls out toward the turning of time.


Elucidations of Hölderlin's Poetry (GA 4) by Martin Heidegger